mokomokai>The new world order is here and #neoliberalism is dead<
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Colin-Roy Hunter"The politics for people that I am promoting would reject the idea of anyone being #disposable. As a result, we could have a caring economy, but it would be more efficient, resilient, and democratic as a consequence, because everyone would be included. And if you use all the resources that everyone can bring to the economy, guess what? You have a bigger, stronger, and better economy where incomes are higher." #RichardMurphy
#Neoliberalism #PoliticsOfCare
RM's blog:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/13/you-are-not-disposable/
You are not disposable
Modern economics behaves as if some people simply do not matter. In this video, I reject that idea outright. Neoliberal economic policy treats people as costs, blames them for failures they did not create, and deliberately excludes those who do not contribute to its narrow definition of “productivity”. Disabled people, carers,...
#LibDems aka #FibDems omitting to point out that their 'new' policy is merely a re-affirmation of failed, #antisocial #Neoliberalism and demonstrates their #EconomicIlliteracy!
Via #RichardMurphy & his own blog:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/12/the-neoliberal-democrats/
The NeoLiberal Democrats
As the FT has reported: The Liberal Democrats have set out plans to replace the UK Treasury with a “Department for Growth” in Birmingham, in a bid to close the “yawning gap” between London and the rest of the country and boost economic fortunes. Daisy Cooper, deputy leader of the centrist opposition...
#RichardMurphy provides an in-depth analysis of in-work #poverty and counters the superficial and anti-social #neoliberal suggestions for solving the issue with genuine solutions. It is a long read, but worth it.
Link to Richard's own blog-site:
The Resolution Foundation’s “Unsung Britain” is an exercise in neoliberal excuse making for the politics of destruction
The Resolution Foundation (RF) sent me a very breathy press release / email this morning, promoting this: As they say: The 13 million working-age families across the poorer half of the country are widely courted by politicians. No party can win elections without their votes, and the country cannot succeed without their...
"Above all, it means recognising that #poverty is a political choice. Scotland shows that different outcomes are possible. Until the UK chooses differently, poverty will remain not just widespread, but deeper, more persistent and more destructive with each passing year. We need a politics of care. Right now we have a poverty of care."
Link to #blog of #RichardMurphy:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/29/the-poverty-of-care/
The poverty of care
The latest poverty data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation is already being met with a familiar shrug. The BBC appears not to have noticed the report. Politicians are not debating it. And the headline figures look broadly unchanged. Around one in five people in the UK is still reported to...
>#NATO's over – #Europe must grow up now<
#PoliticalCommunication
#RichardMurphy
"#We rebuild better. The era of political economic is back. The era of care is available if we #reject #cruelty.
We have to choose where we're going. Europe has to choose where it's going..."
"... we could actually be looking at the prospect when we get through this era and we will that.
We could have a better world, the world we want, the world where care really #matters."
NATO's over – Europe must grow up now
#RichardMurphy is beginning to see the light in respect to #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome:
“What impressed me most about this conversation was the pragmatism underlying their radical proposals. They test policies for feasibility, affordability, and popularity. They recognise that introducing UBI in stages makes it familiar and non-threatening. They're willing to work with any party that takes up these ideas.”
Link to Richard’s own blog-site:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/01/14/podcast-ubi-and-the-common-sense-policy-group/
Podcast: UBI and the Common Sense Policy Group
Universal basic income (UBI) is often dismissed as unaffordable, unrealistic, or politically impossible. But the conversation I had recently with Howard Reed and Elliott Johnson of the Common Sense Policy Group at Northumbria University left me less sure of that. The Group's research challenges the Treasury orthodoxy in two important ways: ...
#RichardMurphy questions the neutrality of #medicine.
I have a comment (#48) published including reference to #MECFS & #pwME.
Link to Richard’s own blog-site:
Medicine is not neutral
We like to believe medicine exists solely to heal. History tells a different story. From slavery to women’s dissent, from homosexuality to neurodivergence, medical authority has repeatedly been used to define resistance as illness and compliance as health. This video explores how diagnosis has been shaped by power, how difference has been...
A week or so ago I was inspired to write a comment on a blog-post by #RichardMurphy. It is rare for me to be able to write so much in a relatively (for me) short period of time. I have reproduced my comment with a brief introductory explanation of #neoliberalism - the #EconomicSystem that Reform, Tories, Blue Labour and FibDems all support to the detriment of ordinary Brits. The Greens appear to be looking for an alternative #EconomicModel.
Link to my blog on #Blogger:
A succinct overview of the #StateOfPolitics in the #UK by #RichardMurphy, with useful commentary from readers following on.
Link to TaxResearch.org:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12/03/why-left-vs-right-politics-is-over-in-the-uk/
Why left vs right politics is over in the UK
British politics is broken. The old left vs right divide no longer explains what is happening. Instead, we face a new choice: care or neglect. In this video, I explain how all major UK parties have converged on the same neoliberal economic model — and why we need a politics...